Peter Ives

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

BREAKING: Proposed Carleton policy would limit freedom of speech on campus, advocates say - The Charlatan, Carleton's independent newspaper Advocacy groups at Carleton University say the university's proposed institutional impartiality policy would limit free speech on campus.

@carleton.ca has not succeeded dodging problems of pretended ‘neutrality’ with ‘impartiality,’ the purpose of universities is to be partial on the side of credible knowledge and responsibility but ‘academic freedom’ may be a better approach charlatan.ca/carleton-pol... #freeexpression #freespeech

The viewpoint diversity debate in Canadian universities - University Affairs Taking free inquiry seriously means rejecting unverified crisis narratives.

An excellent article by @malindasmith.bsky.social ! universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-...

A useful illustration of the limits of the misuse of terms to try to score points?

#freespeech #freeexpression

Confronting residential schools denialism is an ethical and shared Canadian responsibility Residential schools denialism is harmful on many levels, and jeopardizes Canada’s ability to work with Indigenous Peoples to create a stronger future.

An excellent article on the harms of residential school denialism. theconversation.com/confronting-...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Donald Trump says he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon Apparently misled by hyperbolic reporting from conservative outlets on a single small protest, president described peaceful city as ‘war ravaged’

Please explain to me how this utter abuse of state power to silence protest and override the #FirstAmendment is not garnering the level of outrage that the canceling of #Kimmel did. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Donald Trump says he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon Apparently misled by hyperbolic reporting from conservative outlets on a single small protest, president described peaceful city as ‘war ravaged’

Please explain to me how this blatant abuse of govt power to silence protest is not garnering the level of outrage that the canceling of Kimmel did. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

All the more reason to refrain, if possible, from travelling to the US. I am foregoing what I’m sure will be a fabulous conference in NYC but it’s a trifle compared to the unlawful deportations etc

Now is the time for the Canadian government to back off its terrible vision for Canada Post and offer new services like a not for profit social media platform, banking, and parcel service that fits the 21st century #postalstrike #goCUPW

It does— I mean “conservatism” has been a tricky category since Burke… but having to explain to “conservative” students that Hayek and Trump have little in common can be frustrating for them

Confronting residential schools denialism is an ethical and shared Canadian responsibility Residential schools denialism is harmful on many levels, and jeopardizes Canada’s ability to work with Indigenous Peoples to create a stronger future.

An excellent article on the harms of residential school denialism. theconversation.com/confronting-...

Indeed, but this intimidation is very real precisely because “Antifa” is not a defined organization, they can and will go after whoever they wish.

Rethinking Free Speech We need to rethink free speech to better address diverse goals from knowledge production to democratic participation and individual expression.

I often say that I didn't really choose to write, fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/rethink..., it chose me. So sadly no, and Trump's ramping up state censorship certainly takes away any nuance that may have been left

Marcetic in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social makes excellent points, but this censorship is not like the Dem's fumbling attempts to regulate the cesspool of social media and its billions of profit. Its bullying the spineless corporate media world to enforce the shift to Trump's personal power.

University of Toronto building shut down, police investigating threat, amid backlash to professor’s X post While Ruth Marshall's comments were widely characterized as having concerned Charlie Kirk, evidence suggests a different context

When first read about Ruth Marshall’s tweet I couldn’t imagine a context that would change the interpretation but thats the thing about language and context …. pressprogress.ca/university-o...

Frame 13 is now LIVE on Cultural Critique Online, with new reviews from Timothy Bewes, @peterives.bsky.social, Wilton Schereka, and Daniel Y. Kim. Check it out at manifold.umn.edu/projects/cc1...

On Gramsci at Sea, “this book is a delight partially due to its unwillingness to deliver on its provocations"—find out why in @peterives.bsky.social's book review at manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-fram...

Well I think the truth has been in plain sight for anyone willing to see, but more evidence is coming out

Hear, hear.

Cultural Critique Online | University of Minnesota Press Manifold Welcome to *Cultural Critique Online,* the open-access online section of *Cultural Critique*. This journal provides a forum for creative and provocative scholarship in the theoretical humanities and h...

Here’s my review of Sharad Chari’s _Gramsci at Sea_ manifold.umn.edu/projects/cc1...

It turns out that being endorsed by virtually everyone on Jeffrey Epstein's flight log is not in fact appealing to voters.

Let’s be clear, N Korea wasn’t bombed because they have nuclear weapons. This gives #Iran little choice but to develop ‘deterrence’, but the US says it’s not a war, so we know they are in lulu land

Rethinking Free Speech – North American Dilemmas /w Peter Ives Peter Ives is professor of political science at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Rethinking Free Speech (Fernwood, 2024). We need to rethink free speech to better address diverse goals ...

Thanks to the folks at @LeftStreamed for this: socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed...

• Insist on full humanitarian access to Gaza in a manner in keeping with core humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence, and demand that the Israeli ban on the UN Relief and Works Agency be completely lifted. • Publicly support the role of and fully comply with international courts in holding to account those who violate international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Israel. • Pursue all possible domestic measures, including immediately withdrawing from the free trade agreement between Canada and Israel, imposing sanctions on Israeli leaders and other individuals suspected of involvement in atrocity crimes, initiating investigations into charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act (including any Canadians or dual nationals involved in such crimes) with the aim of prosecuting offenders in Canada or other jurisdictions, enforcing a full and comprehensive two- way arms embargo, and stripping charitable status from organizations found to be complicit in crimes under international law.

412 academics, diplomats, former ministers, + lawyers send 🇨🇦 PM @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social letter re: Israel’s Gaza genocide demanding Canada “do everything in its power to stop these atrocities and support efforts to bring those responsible to account,” including sanctions + end to free trade.

gosh that doesn't sound like him at all

Opinion: UBC's Palestine Exception — how re-interpreting the University Act enabled a lawsuit The University Act was never intended to compel “institutional neutrality.” It was the Bacon administration that helped cultivate and disseminate a “perverse interpretation” of the statute, paving the...

Great article about the danger's and creation of the narrative of "university neutrality" #academicfreedom, #PalestineException #institutionalneutrality
ubyssey.ca/opinion/ubc-...

Because mealy mouse spinelessness has been working so well for the Dems? What the Dems need is conviction and leadership- those on the center left will get that trans people are people too and have rights

What a cynical, spineless idea. I think center left voters want to see a moral backbone. You can present trans rights in a very reasonable way. This wish washy suggestion reminds me of exactly the Dems weakness— a lack of conviction and sense of leadership